The Split Between North

Korea and South Korea

by
Daniel Saputra
Nurul Hanifah
Sesilia Elda KP
Valentino Budi S
Yohanida Ardiani

April 18. 2019

At the same time, Secession and Irredentism are in Korean Peninsula.
• History of Korean Peninsula
Many countries were in Korean peninsula and divided territories for over two thousand
years. However, due to their same race, even though they were different countries,
they had similar cultural inheritances before divided to South and North Korea 1953.
Politics of Korean Peninsula
Because of the important place of Korean peninsula
between the strong countries and strategically valuable location,
there have been a lot of wars and fights by superpower countries in the Korean peninsula.
Divided Korean Peninsula by Korean War 1950
After the Second World War, there were two super powers in the Korean Peninsula.
Soviet Union and the U.S were them.
They agreed that each of them kind of governed half of the Korean Peninsula.
Five years later of the end of the Second World War, North Korea invaded the South.
That’s the Korean War.
• Korea had been controlled by the
Japanese from 1905 to 1945.
• In 1945,
•Soviets occupied the NORTH,
•America the SOUTH
•The two halves were divided by t
he 38th Parallel
 Timeline of Events
• North:
– communist government
– supplied with weapons by North
the Soviets. Kim Il Sung
• South:
– capitalist system
– supported by the U.S.
• 1949- Both the US and
the Soviet troops withdra South
w from Korea.

Syn g m an Rh ee
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Were Attacked!
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 Results of the Korean War
• South KOREA
REMAINED ‘FREE’ (no
democracy until 1987
• Korea badly damaged
• Still two separate states
today
• Still US troops in
South Korea
Demilitarized Zone Area between South & North
North Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)
After the cease fire, the North Korea was still governed by IlSung Kim and
he strictly imposed one man rule. After he died in 1994, his son, Jungil Kim
inherited the power from his father.
In the North Korea, there is still dictatorial regime and
they have had to make people respect Jungil Kim and his father, Il sung Kim.
South Korea (the Republic of Korea)
After the cease fire, there were democratic vote and people made democratic government
in the South Korea. However, there were some revolutions by military people and ironically,
the military people developed the economy of South Korea.
In fact, before 1969, North Korea was more developed country than the South,
but after that time, the South Korea becomes the twelfth developed country in the world.
Especially, after the Seoul Olympic Games in 1988, Seoul is one of the international cities
in the world.
Differences between South and North Korea
 VS

Leaders of North Korea Leaders of South Korea

People of North Korea
People of South Korea

Difference of South and North Koreans

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